Comments on: Chartburn: 1/4/08 http://popdose.com/chartburn-1408/ your daily dose of pop culture Tue, 24 Nov 2009 04:45:36 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Old_Davy http://popdose.com/chartburn-1408/comment-page-1/#comment-42569 Old_Davy Sun, 06 Jan 2008 02:00:16 +0000 http://popdose.com/chartburn-1408/#comment-42569 I had effectively blocked "Paloma Blanca" from my memory banks until today. Thanks a lot guys. Now I won't sleep peacefully for a week. I had effectively blocked “Paloma Blanca” from my memory banks until today. Thanks a lot guys. Now I won't sleep peacefully for a week.

]]> By: Old_Davy http://popdose.com/chartburn-1408/comment-page-1/#comment-22002 Old_Davy Sun, 06 Jan 2008 01:00:16 +0000 http://popdose.com/chartburn-1408/#comment-22002 I had effectively blocked "Paloma Blanca" from my memory banks until today. Thanks a lot guys. Now I won't sleep peacefully for a week. I had effectively blocked “Paloma Blanca” from my memory banks until today. Thanks a lot guys. Now I won't sleep peacefully for a week.

]]> By: DwDunphy http://popdose.com/chartburn-1408/comment-page-1/#comment-22001 DwDunphy Sat, 05 Jan 2008 23:10:16 +0000 http://popdose.com/chartburn-1408/#comment-22001 No, I totally support your Hannah Montana backing. I mean, how could you not? In a day and age when the learning challenged are still mocked and ridiculed, Miley is right there, a shining example for big foreheaded kids everywhere. She's the 21 Century Corky.<br><br>Wait... What? She's not...? Oh... dear... No, I totally support your Hannah Montana backing. I mean, how could you not? In a day and age when the learning challenged are still mocked and ridiculed, Miley is right there, a shining example for big foreheaded kids everywhere. She's the 21 Century Corky.

Wait… What? She's not…? Oh… dear…

]]> By: JonCummings http://popdose.com/chartburn-1408/comment-page-1/#comment-22000 JonCummings Sat, 05 Jan 2008 19:40:19 +0000 http://popdose.com/chartburn-1408/#comment-22000 I stopped paying attention to Green Day completely after Dookie, but American Idiot was ubiquitous around the house for more than a year thanks to my 10-year-old son--who, I'm proud to say, was introduced to the use of obscenities in pop music by Billy Joe. Whatever. There's lots worse music out there for a 10-year-old to like, and I have no problems whatsoever with exposing a kid to the political sentiments expressed on the album. To do a little SAT-level comparison, Green Day is to 10-year-old boys as _________ is to 6-year-old girls. (If you chose C., Hannah Montana, you score an 800 verbal.) What does it say about me that I have managed to find both Green Day and Hannah tolerable?<br><br>If you haven't managed to discover the mash-up versions of the American Idiot songs that have been floating around the Net for the last couple years under the monicker Dean Gray, they're worthwhile. They manage to ridicule and exult the band simultaneously, by exposing how Billy Joe has aped (and in many cases just ripped off) his musical influences. I stopped paying attention to Green Day completely after Dookie, but American Idiot was ubiquitous around the house for more than a year thanks to my 10-year-old son–who, I'm proud to say, was introduced to the use of obscenities in pop music by Billy Joe. Whatever. There's lots worse music out there for a 10-year-old to like, and I have no problems whatsoever with exposing a kid to the political sentiments expressed on the album. To do a little SAT-level comparison, Green Day is to 10-year-old boys as _________ is to 6-year-old girls. (If you chose C., Hannah Montana, you score an 800 verbal.) What does it say about me that I have managed to find both Green Day and Hannah tolerable?

If you haven't managed to discover the mash-up versions of the American Idiot songs that have been floating around the Net for the last couple years under the monicker Dean Gray, they're worthwhile. They manage to ridicule and exult the band simultaneously, by exposing how Billy Joe has aped (and in many cases just ripped off) his musical influences.

]]> By: clark http://popdose.com/chartburn-1408/comment-page-1/#comment-21999 clark Sat, 05 Jan 2008 18:18:16 +0000 http://popdose.com/chartburn-1408/#comment-21999 i can't believe no one pointed out that the goofy song with the guy playing the recorder sounded very 'meet the flinstones' ish...does anyone hear the similarity? <br><br>i never loved dookie, but it was pretty good pop rock. i think everything green day has done since then has gotten worse and worse. that boulevard of broken dreams song is awful, and american idiot is almost as bad. and what's with the eyeliner and them going out of their way now to look hot topicy? they're so irrelevant to me it's almost embarrassing. i really dont understand the attraction. i can't believe no one pointed out that the goofy song with the guy playing the recorder sounded very 'meet the flinstones' ish…does anyone hear the similarity?

i never loved dookie, but it was pretty good pop rock. i think everything green day has done since then has gotten worse and worse. that boulevard of broken dreams song is awful, and american idiot is almost as bad. and what's with the eyeliner and them going out of their way now to look hot topicy? they're so irrelevant to me it's almost embarrassing. i really dont understand the attraction.

]]> By: Bastard No. 1 http://popdose.com/chartburn-1408/comment-page-1/#comment-21998 Bastard No. 1 Sat, 05 Jan 2008 16:52:21 +0000 http://popdose.com/chartburn-1408/#comment-21998 The biggest/quickest drop off from talented to crap has to be Steve Miller. I never dug his 70's stuff but I recognized he had talent. He went off the deep end in the 80's starting with the one track second side of the Circle Of Love album - "Macho City". "Bongo Bongo is one of the stupidest songs of the 80's and I want to make the World Turn Around is only slightly less dookie scented. The biggest/quickest drop off from talented to crap has to be Steve Miller. I never dug his 70's stuff but I recognized he had talent. He went off the deep end in the 80's starting with the one track second side of the Circle Of Love album – “Macho City”. “Bongo Bongo is one of the stupidest songs of the 80's and I want to make the World Turn Around is only slightly less dookie scented.

]]> By: JonCummings http://popdose.com/chartburn-1408/comment-page-1/#comment-21997 JonCummings Fri, 04 Jan 2008 23:20:48 +0000 http://popdose.com/chartburn-1408/#comment-21997 I can't believe I didn't participate in this clusterfuck column! I want in! I have to stop going on vacation. Freddie & the Dreamers--now THAT's great music! You schmos with your Jerry Lewis references--you've got the wrong '60s lightweights. It was Gary Lewis, of the Playboys ("This Diamond Ring," "Count Me In," those Playboys), who was Jerry's son. A couple friends and I used to "Do the Freddie" at dorm parties in the mid-'80s to irritate people.<br><br>Whoops, I've said too much. I swear, I never attended dorm parties in the mid-'80s--much less DJ'd them, or gave in to the geeks who would only dance to that goddam "What I Like About You," which I can no longer listen to without hearing a bunch of nerds yelling "EEEEEEEE!" and seeing them pogo their dorky selves onto the dancefloor.<br><br>sorry... I can't believe I didn't participate in this clusterfuck column! I want in! I have to stop going on vacation. Freddie & the Dreamers–now THAT's great music! You schmos with your Jerry Lewis references–you've got the wrong '60s lightweights. It was Gary Lewis, of the Playboys (”This Diamond Ring,” “Count Me In,” those Playboys), who was Jerry's son. A couple friends and I used to “Do the Freddie” at dorm parties in the mid-'80s to irritate people.

Whoops, I've said too much. I swear, I never attended dorm parties in the mid-'80s–much less DJ'd them, or gave in to the geeks who would only dance to that goddam “What I Like About You,” which I can no longer listen to without hearing a bunch of nerds yelling “EEEEEEEE!” and seeing them pogo their dorky selves onto the dancefloor.

sorry…

]]> By: Zack http://popdose.com/chartburn-1408/comment-page-1/#comment-21995 Zack Fri, 04 Jan 2008 22:43:09 +0000 http://popdose.com/chartburn-1408/#comment-21995 I sure can. I sure can.

]]> By: Zack http://popdose.com/chartburn-1408/comment-page-1/#comment-21996 Zack Fri, 04 Jan 2008 22:42:23 +0000 http://popdose.com/chartburn-1408/#comment-21996 I've always wondered whether the audio they used for the Greenday video was actually the live feed from the Woodstock concert - notice how at the 1:37 mark his strumming hand gets hit with a fistful of mud - but it doesn't seem to affect the sound at all. Any guitarists out there want to weigh in on this one? I've always wondered whether the audio they used for the Greenday video was actually the live feed from the Woodstock concert – notice how at the 1:37 mark his strumming hand gets hit with a fistful of mud – but it doesn't seem to affect the sound at all. Any guitarists out there want to weigh in on this one?

]]> By: DwDunphy http://popdose.com/chartburn-1408/comment-page-1/#comment-21994 DwDunphy Fri, 04 Jan 2008 20:47:01 +0000 http://popdose.com/chartburn-1408/#comment-21994 And dig that fantastic technique the guitar players have! So much range and they never once move their fingers on the fretboard!<br><br>Clapton can suck it!! And dig that fantastic technique the guitar players have! So much range and they never once move their fingers on the fretboard!

Clapton can suck it!!

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